My parents met in college. They lived in the same dorm and on the same floor. They shared the same friend group. My mom had a boyfriend and my dad had a girlfriend, but they were smitten with each other.

Long story short, they fell in love and left their respective mates and ended up together and have been for the last 28 years. My mom was born and raised Jewish, and my dad was Christian. My mom really wanted to get married in her childhood synagogue. …

To Whom It May Concern:

Hi, I’m Megan and I haven’t left my house for anything except going to the grocery store since March 2020. I have followed all CDC guidelines, I have self-quarantined when I feel under the weather, and I wear a mask properly when I do leave my house.

I haven’t been to a restaurant in a year. I haven’t gone to the movies in a year. I haven’t gone mini-golfing, bowling, or out of state in a year. I lost my job, I moved, and I’ve kept my mouth shut. Because Covid-19 is bigger than me.

I’m about as healthy as…

In the last ten years or so, mental health has been much more mainstream with celebrities and social media influencers alike speaking out about how they’re feeling. As a society, we are all generally more open and accepting about mental illness and recognizing that mental health is essential healthcare.

I think that is awesome. I think it’s a really great thing to normalize people talking openly about how they feel, especially when they are feeling poorly. When you hear your favorite celebrity talking about their bipolar disorder, that makes it easier to hear that your sibling or your mom has…

I have been on SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors) since I was about 19 years old. A few weeks ago, my psychiatrist suggested we switch to an SNRI (serotonin–norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor) to see if it works better.

In layman’s terms, an SSRI attacks one neurotransmitter in your brain, and an SNRI attacks two. So the theory is that it should be more aggressive in helping with depression because it’s doing more.

However, despite spending the better part of the last six years taking all these magic drugs, there are a LOT of side effects that I find no one really…

Driving instructors get the short end of the stick in regards to teacher respect. We are thought to be old, mean, boring, and not “real" teachers.

Well, I’m about to turn 25 years old, I start each class by saying “hello” to each of my students individually and asking them how their day was, and I work just as hard as my other teacher friends. My curriculum is just different than the public school system. …

Last year, I was diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder) by my psychiatrist and prescribed a medication to help me focus more at work. Unfortunately, many women like myself are not formally diagnosed or treated for ADHD until they are adults.

When a kid is a “problem child,” “rowdy,” or “loud,” they often times are diagnosed with ADHD and hopped up on Adderall. However, male children are three times more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than female children. This is mainly because ADHD presents itself very differently in boys and girls.

Girls tend to be more reserved and overthinking…

Nearly every article I see linked on Twitter or Instagram about relationships are about how they’re such hard work. How you have to put in 100% to maintain that relationship and love.

…I don’t get it.

I’ve been with my partner for over six years and we have lived together for more than three years. And I have never once grown tired of him. I have never once thought to myself “this is so hard, I feel like I’m working hard at this relationship.” Am I the outlier in this argument?

Is it wrong that I would genuinely rather spend…

If you’ve gathered anything about me and my family from the small snapshots of my life I’ve given, you’d know I come from an extremely liberal family. Politics, race, and science were regular conversation topics at our dinner table.

This year with a global pandemic taking the lives of more than 300,000 Americans has shown that I have much, unfortunately, different views on public responsibility than some of my closest family members.

Back in September, my boss asked me if there were any days off I needed for the holidays. She was getting a head start on planning classes over…